Received a 2 Cav 358156 for Christmas

[High Desert Hunter]

Cleaned it up and eeked out the time to cast up 60 or so bullets before I was missed. I water dropped them, not sure if it is necessary, but I hope to go and shoot a few tomorrow. Also received 1000 Hornady gas checks as well, I have been using H110 and Unique to load for the 357, as well as the 44, and 45, but I think I will be picking up a pound of 2400 so I can give old Skeeter's load a try. It was a Merry Christmas, surrounded by family and friends, all celebrating God's love for us by giving us a Savior.

Dave Beeman

[vanilla_gorilla]

I've got a friend who's trying to find his for me. I want to have it hollowpointed by buckshot.

[Harry O]

I have a brass mould (I believe it is called a New England mould or something similar) that is a copy of the 358156.

I have been shooting it successfully for some time in my .357 Magnums, but it is only a single cavity so I recently bought a two cavity Lyman. I cast a bunch of them and noticed that the front driving band is narrower on the Lyman than on the New England. I have not shot them yet, so I don't know if the Lyman boolits will shoot the same as the older one or worse.

[Snapping Twig]

I like that boolit in a magnum case over 5g W231 for a +P special and 15.5g H110 for a magnum.

Warning - Please verify my magnum load and work up to it. Safety first. :)

Merry Christmas.

[45r]

14.0 grains 2400 and the 358156 boolits shoot very well in my model 27.

[High Desert Hunter]

Thanks Gents, I look forward to experimenting with this bullet. If it was good enough for Skeeter, it should be good enough for me.

Dave

[Harry O]

14.0 grains 2400 and the 358156 boolits shoot very well in my model 27.

Very close to "my" load of 13.5gr of 2400. Accurate and no leading.

[High Desert Hunter]

Wow, went to the local gunshop yesterday, trying to build my stock of powder and primers, prices went up $2 on small pistol and $3 on large pistol just since October. I'm going to priced out of shooting if this trend keeps up.

Dave

[shooting on a shoestring]

358156...still one of my favorites, 358091 is the other.

358156 was what Dad taught me to cast when I was in grade school. I've cast tons! For years say 20 or so, that was the only boolit I had for 38/357. I shot most of them in .38 sans GC. Still did fine. I've also used that boolit to set the speed limit on a few .357s I've owned. Great boolit. Can go fast or slow and group like you want.